Rotherham Win League One Playoff On Penalties

In the League One Championship playoff final at Wembley between Leyton Orient and Rotherham this afternoon, the game went to penalties and it was Rotherham who won the shoot out 4-3, and that was they had been 2-0 down at half time.

Kevin Lisbie and Chris Morgan in action at Wembley
James Tavernier played the whole game at Wembley and played well, and also scored Rotherham’s fourth penalty, and Haris Vuckic came on just before the end of the first period of extra time.

Rotherham had started the game well but then Leyton Orient came into the game and two goals in five minutes by Orient put them in the driver’s seat, as Moses Odubajo scored after 34 minutes and Dean Cox after 39 minutes to put Orient 2-0 up at the break.

But then in the second half Rotherham came storming back with two goals in five minutes, and first it was Alex Revell after 55 minutes who poked the ball home after goalkeeper Jones was unable to get to a free kick.

And then the goal of the game five minutes later, as Revell saw goalkeeper Jones off his line, and put the ball home from fully 35 yards out.

It was close throughout the rest of the 90 minutes, and in extra time both sides seemed too tired to create any worthwhile chances and it was 2-2 at the end of extra time , and it went to penalties.

Orient goalkeeper Jamie Jones saved Rotherham’s second penalty from Frecklington – James Tavernier scored Rotherham’s fourth penalty and then Rotherham goalkeeper Collin saved from Baudry, so it was all square after four penalties.

And Rotherham scored their fifth penalty and the Rotherham goalkeeper Collin again saved Orient’s fifth penalty from Dagnall, and so Rotherham were the winners and in the Championship>next season.

This is Rotherham’s second successive promotion under Scottish manager Steve Evans, and of course Conor Newton and perhaps even James Tavernier will be part of the Rotherham squad next season.

These play-off games are something to behold, and it came after QPR’s ten men won yesterday, with the winner coming after 90 minutes through Bobby Zamora, and they get back into the Premier League at their first attempt.

At half time in this training match, currently 1-0 to the yellows, a goal from Grenier.

Get French Football News understands that a meeting between Montpellier, Newcastle and the Remy Cabella’s father and agent has been scheduled to take place next week regarding the possible transfer of the player.

It is our understanding that these will be the first formal round of negotiations to take place between the aforementioned parties this summer and that, therefore, talks are by no means advanced.

Remy Cabella will not make a decision on his future until mid-June, once he has finished training with the France World Cup Squad.

Newcastle face competition from Atletico Madrid, who have already had more than one meeting with the player’s father Hector Cabella.

Southampton are also understood to be interested in the player, but no contact has yet been made.

With Talent like that it amazes me how America and England are ranked higher than France in FIFA’s world rankings .

They have so much talent in midfield as well as their back four, Plus their bench is very strong as well . If they had a true world class striker like Suarez (closest they have is Benzema) they would be some team .

Adam Collin was born in Carlisle and was the Foxes keeper for a number of years. He was also at the toon in 2002-2004 and was on the bench for a number of games but I don’t recall him playing in any games. So Rotherham had 3 toon players / ex players in their winning team today. Yesterday Simpson got a medal for winning the play offs with QPR. Ironic isn’t it .

Nothing new here regarding grenier apart from he’s been speaking to our French lot and apparently wants to come! Seriously? Who else is he gonna speak to? The rest of the squad bar ours! Lazy journalism at its finest! Interesting that he wants high wages if true though

A lot of you are telling me that you aren’t excited about next season! How is that possible mates? We’re going to have owner and manager shenanigans all summer, followed by excuse making, followed by plenty of bragging about our squad by Pardew. Now get excited!

Aaaaoooogaaaa! AaaaOOOgaaaaa! This is an Official Blog Hobbit statement. Important news from the club mates! Are you ready for it? Well without further ado here it is:
Newcastle United have decided not to sign Faty Papy at this time. He is an exciting talent but far beyond our ability to afford. Other exciting players will be coming however. Please buy your season tickets now.

What’s that JamesToon? What’s that? You expect wor beloved owner to pay for all those players??? Plus wages, plus agent’s fees?? Unbelievable cheek mate! Mike has his moob job to pay for already! You’re going to push him too far one of these days mate! Beware!

thankfully that match has finished, it was dreadful, Perez only featured twice in the 2nd half, once for an offside and the second a little skip 5 yards from half time which bought a free-kick, cannot tell if he is good or not, however the Tenerife number 10 was the only one running into space and trying to unsettle their opponents, saw none of that from Perez, I thought he was supposed to be a striker, he was on the left wing ?

Geordietwo
If meetings are taking place next week with Cabella’s agents on a potential purchase. Perez is on his way in. Grenier is looking like a solid transfer target……….Would you not say that this transfer window is looking more positive than the last two ??Try and be positive mate and hope for the best rather than thinking the worst

JFA
I know what your saying buddy and I understand the club has drained the life out of most of us. But if we can bring in some quality players this window then surely that’s a reason to be positive mate aint it

Jazzyp,
Yes of course, we’ve been saying every window for three years this is Mashers time to show some ambition, so this year with 50M profit in the pot, either we have to see some big money spent, not on idividual players necessarily but a lot of talent brought in, either that or we see the never decreasing debt come down.

JFA
Now come on mate, I am a very positive person mate but come on dude thinking that debt is gonna start going south is like listening to Darnsarf lol.
There’s a lot of talk today regarding Gates averaging 40k next season. Personally where I sit I don’t see that happening. but Ashley knows he has to do something this summer with Newcastle or the revolt will grow stronger

I still would like to sign some1 like arron hunt at 27 has good years left in him and some good experience, he comes from the german league which is a bit closer to our own
grenier and cabrella could need a year to settle n

how on earth are we going to sign someone when better teams with more ambition want the same players?

Southampton will snap up Cabella and rightly so.

give it a few days guys and you’s will hear the same excuses all over again and it’snot ” we couldn’t get them over the line ” remark it will be ” we didn’t enquire to buy them”

Remember PEA, Zouma, Belhanda etc,etc according to NEWCASTLE’S sources we made an enquire for them but only to learn that a few weeks later on NEWCASTLE sources came out with an statement saying they DIDN’T enquire about them.

so don’t read to much into it guys because the fat lady would never stop singing 😉

Thing is if attendance goes to 40k next season all Ashley will do is family deals and cut price tickets to sell those tickets out and unfortunately people will still go probably use a wonga loan to pay for them as well sickening truly sickening !!!

Santon
I would be very surprised if Mashley allowed this to happen mate personally. He is a business man at the end of the day and runs on a profit only turnaround.
This is why im hoping he sees the light and actually spends some money

Some people still think that pardew has his hands tied and given the restricted conditions he has to try and manage a football club , is doing ok, even though they would still like him sacked.
The reason I think he should go is simply because he still had 11 pro footballers on that pitch in a black and white shirt , 11 players he couldn’t instill confidence , couldn’t play as a team , a team it has taken 3 YEARS to put together with players HE wanted . If this team can’t perform , WHY ? He put the team together. As for not being able to motivate them for vital games , that is probably the most essential attribute of a football manager- he hasn’t got it .
If we had Jose mourinho as manager those last 8 games , would we have lost 7 ? I doubt it , he would have played the players to their strengths , found a place foe Benny , dabbled with tactics , and got them motivated and probably won a few games. So really pardews hands are not tied , coz 3 or 4 managers could have come in and won more games than he did , He simply has no idea REGARDLESS , what players he puts out .

More important blog news lads! Ashley has been spotted in Bigg Market dressed as a woman! Well he thinks he looks like a woman at any rate. I’ve put my number one investigator beermonkey on the case now. We’ll get to the bottom of it!

Thanks for the support lads. I’m afraid I’m a bit of an acquired taste. Still I love to have a go at Mike! As for Lassogo’s mam I think we could use her in the player acquisitions department couldn’t we? She looks like a capable negotiator.

I’m sure Ashley will want to get the quality in, but getting them over the line is another thing. It’s clear he doesn’t fancy the Europa league at this stage or the domestic Cups much, but I don’t think there is any reason to think he won’t be seriously targeting a 7th to 8th placed finish. We all want more, but I don’t think there’s much reason to think that isn’t their goal.

In my opinion, Ben Arfa wouldn’t get near a Mourinho team, particularly one that’s struggling, and I also can’t see much mileage in comparing Pardew to the small number of elite managers. We trawl in a different pond.

In honor of two dedicated Newcastle fans, who lost their lives supporting Newcastle United, when their passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday July 17th, 2014 by rebels, as they were traveling to support the team in New Zealand.

We will never forget them.

Health Update - 1 August, 2015

I must admit I hold my breath every six months as I go through medical tests to measure my PSA count.

But good news early last week that the PSA count is still undetectable, and that means the prostate cancer is still under control, and there is no trace of cancer in the body.

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